Bubba Jones

Nothing yet. Just store it for someone else to take :)

This seems to be more of an issue with the latest patch. It wasn't nearly as bad in previous patches. I'm hoping the mod/exe is just doing more checks during the "Creating.." process to verify everything is working before actually loading your character into the game.

That may be, but we've lost a lot of stuff before by setting up a tent and putting items in it right away. There is definitely a glitch related to tents. I once set up three new tents, unloaded an entire Ural (we stole it) full of items into the tents and after the next restart two of the tents were completely empty, but the third was perfect (they were all 10 feet from each other). I performed the same steps on each tent myself.

They are valid items in the game.

This is exactly what we do. Once we deem it "stable", then we put more items in it. It's almost funny how many tents we find with only one item in it - all of those people just waiting to be able to actually use their tents due to the glitches.

Deleted. Better response above mine.

I use the dayzdb.com/map on my iPad. I use it for areas I'm not real familiar with yet in the game - for loot or if I get lost running around in the wilderness. I use the in-game map to get coordinates if I don't have a GPS.

Report it to the DayZ staff and ask to get the server blacklisted. That's a bunch of crap and it's against the server hosting rules.

According to some of the stats I've seen there are hosting providers running at least 4 instances of DayZ on the same machine, so requiring that much for one dedicated server is a little bit extreme. I think the DayZ staff is really padding the necessary hardware. Look at this for instance: http://arma2.swec.se/server/data/261782

I think they should ban selling items for real money from the forums personally.

I believe your Step 7 is incorrect. Should multiply by the first number.

I've found two, both of them from deer stands, but they're really rare. I check a lot of deer stands...

Vehicles can also dupe items as well for some reason. Saw it with 1.7.2.

I can confirm this does in fact work. Jump in the Canada 2 and run away fast (there are campers who try and kill those spawning in at times there). It places you to the West of Pavolo. If you relog instantly it won't work, but run around for a few minutes/kill an animal/loot something and then go back to your original server and you should be fine.

Tents still appear to be pretty glitchy. I've found that a lot of times they eat the items in them after the first server restart. Here's what I do now. Place a tent and put one item in it and then save the tent. After a server restart, check the tent. If the item is gone, put another item, save, and wait for restart again. Once the item stays after a server restart, then it seems to be fine (for the most part). About the worst thing you can do is place a tent and put high value items in it right away. From my experience, you have a high chance of losing everything on the first server restart.

I don't have any dogs in this fight, but here's another reference point to look at: http://arma2.swec.se/server/data/121702 I'll leave the analysis up to you guys.

Possibly, but I don't think that's it. I always sort by ping and play on the lowest latency servers. I said "most" as some of their servers are fast (maybe dedicated boxes?), but as a general rule, I find they do load slower than other hosting company's servers from some reason. Again, just my impression as a player. My suspicion is that it's the number of instances they run on a server or possibly their peering at some locations. I guess what I'd recommend is that if you're looking for a hosting provider that, as a player, connect to several of their servers and just see what your general impression is and then come to your own conclusion. I already know the provider I'm going to use based on my experience of logging into dozens (probably over a 100) servers.

I don't have my own server yet, but from playing the game it appears that most of the HFB servers load slower (the receiving data, waiting on host, creating character, etc.) than the other hosting providers for some reason - just my perception so you may think otherwise. So, just from my personal experience, I'd personally chose another server provider just based on that alone.

There is a website already where you can search for players...

+1 Just make it so that carried backpacks can't contain items even. Just empty backbacks and I'd be more than happy.

I just found the white pickup truck that someone stashed, but whenever I try to get in it as the driver it just kicks me back out. It's like the animation to enter starts, but then it does nothing. I can see the gear option, enter as driver, etc, but I just can't get in it to drive it. Any ideas?

Yes. Follow their twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/dayzdevteam